Recaps

The spire collapsed, revealing a withered mage instead of the Soul Lord, and the voice guiding Yang Yi fell silent. The mage revealed that he himself had served as the seal and prison for a century, then accused the group of trusting Sivell’s lie.

• Li Wen backed away from the spire as its runes vanished, its barrier shattered, and the tower crumbled into dust.
• Joseph saw the withered white-robed mage and demanded to know where his great master was.
• Yang Yi called for the voice that had promised him power and a quest reward, but it did not answer.
• Spade K demanded that the old mage hand over the divine artifact used for the seal.
• The mage awakened, dismissed the supposed divine artifact, and explained that he had been the seal and the place had been the prison for a century.
• The mage accused the group of reaching the prison by trusting Sivell, whom he called a liar.

Poe D'Lien recounted a hidden version of the campaign against Soul Lord Kourt, claiming Aiswell and Serun had betrayed him over the secret of the Undying Flower and that Sivell had arranged his final destruction. Li Wen suspected Poe was lying, and the chapter left his true motives unresolved.

• Princess Victoria arrived with Edgar, Anles, Lina, Philip, and the others, then identified Poe D'Lien as a mage recorded as dead a century earlier.
• Poe D'Lien claimed Kourt had come to Lorenteen seeking the secret of the Undying Flower, which Poe, Aiswell, and Serun also wanted.
• Poe D'Lien said Aiswell and Serun had used Skyfall against him, while Kourt died facing the falling sky.
• Joseph rejected Poe D'Lien's account and insisted that his master was immortal, while Spade K questioned his own failed search for a divine artifact.
• Poe D'Lien said he had survived as a soul within the Mage Tower and accused Sivell of luring the others into destroying his refuge.
• Li Wen privately doubted Poe D'Lien's story because she believed Kourt's will and power had endured, but she stayed silent and wondered what Poe was plotting.

Joseph transformed into a flesh giant and attacked Poe D'Lien, who petrified the undead pirates and defeated Joseph with spears of light. As the seawater barrier began to collapse, Poe D'Lien revealed that an ancient Teleportation Array could save them, but it required a spellcaster with sufficient potential to act as its key.

• Joseph's faith collapsed, and he transformed into a giant of flesh and bone before ordering the Mist Devourer to kill Poe D'Lien.
• The undead pirates charged Poe D'Lien, who petrified them all with a gesture.
• Poe D'Lien summoned spears of light that destroyed Joseph's giant form and left him near death.
• The seawater barrier cracked and began to collapse after the Mage Tower's support failed.
• Poe D'Lien told the group that an ancient Teleportation Array could help them escape and asked for a gifted spellcaster to serve as its key.

Victoria exposed that Kourt had survived by turning Loren Ting City into his domain, making him impossible to kill through ordinary means. Poe D'Lien confirmed the city had been sunk beneath the sea to erode Kourt's soul, but revealed that Aiswell had also plotted against him.

• Poe D'Lien explained that Philip would die as the key needed to activate the Teleportation Array, prompting Edgar and Moria to refuse to sacrifice him.
• Spade K urged Poe D'Lien to take Philip anyway, but Victoria interrupted and demanded that Kourt be killed before they discussed escaping.
• Victoria deduced that Kourt's Soul Lord domain could have been created by scattering soil from his homeland, allowing him to survive even Skyfall.
• Poe D'Lien confirmed that Kourt had made Loren Ting City his domain and resurrected by sacrificing its residents whenever his body and soul were destroyed.
• Poe D'Lien explained that Aiswell had used Skyfall to sink the city and seal Kourt beneath the sea, then revealed that Aiswell had also plotted against him.

Poe D'Lien explained that Kourt was bound to the Sunken City, while Yang Yi confessed that Kourt had used him to lure people to the ruins. Kourt then appeared to have taken over Joseph Willbrard and announced his return.

• Poe D'Lien said Kourt's weakened Remnant Soul could not leave the Sunken City and had used objects and people to attract outsiders.
• Spade K accused Yang Yi of bringing down the Mage Tower and claimed he was possessed by Kourt.
• Yang Yi confessed that Kourt had called himself an ancient god and persuaded him to spread information about Black Reef Bay on game forums.
• Spade K attacked Yang Yi, but Joker stopped him before the fight escalated.
• Li Wen asked whether Kourt was still inside Yang Yi, and Yang Yi said the voice had vanished when the tower collapsed.
• Joseph Willbrard rose, healed from his wounds, and told Li Wen, "I have returned."

Kourt accused Poe D'Lien of betraying him a century earlier and offered the others a way out if they helped kill the weakened Archmage. As players began siding with Kourt, Poe revealed that destroying his Mage Tower had freed him to wield his power over the entire city.

• Kourt, inhabiting Joseph's body, accused Poe D'Lien of betraying him during their search for the Undying Flower a hundred years earlier.
• Kourt claimed Poe's soul was weakened and offered to guide the group to an escape Teleportation Array if they helped kill him.
• Spade K and several other players sided with Kourt, while Edgar remained wary, Fu Qingyan looked to Li Wen, and Victoria withheld her decision.
• Poe D'Lien laughed at Kourt's proposal and declared that the Mage Tower's destruction had removed his final restraint.
• Poe announced that the undersea city was his creation and that he was its god, awakening the ruins around them.

Poe D'Lien and Kourt fought across the collapsing Sunken City, each commanding the city’s magic and undead. As the battle left Kourt suppressed and other players trapped, Li Wen questioned why both enemies had tried to make them choose sides.

• Poe D'Lien reshaped the square and attacked Kourt, who escaped as black mist and awakened the undead buried throughout Sunken City.
• Poe D'Lien animated the ruins to fight Kourt’s growing army of skeletons, and the battle damaged the Sky Dome until seawater poured in.
• Kourt urged the onlookers to join the fight, and Spade K charged with Joker and Heart A, but Poe D'Lien trapped Joker in stone and swallowed Heart A in quicksand.
• Li Wen told Moria that Kourt was acting through a remnant corpse and could not match Poe D'Lien, then wondered why both had been trying to make them choose sides.

Li Wen realized that Kourt and Poe D'Lien had been protecting the people around them to force them to witness their conflict as part of a ritual. After the battle stopped, a vast Ritual Array appeared beneath the plaza and trapped the gathered groups at separate nodes, while Li Wen remained unbound in the air.

• Li Wen told Moria that Kourt and Poe D'Lien needed the spectators alive to witness their struggle and take a stance.
• As the plaza collapsed, Spade K, Edgar, Fu Qingyan, and others failed to escape and were driven toward its center.
• Kourt and Poe D'Lien abruptly stopped fighting, and a vast Ritual Array emerged across the plaza.
• Victoria and Edgar's Investigation Squad, Moria, and the players were trapped at different nodes of the array.
• Li Wen floated alone above the array, unbound by any node.

Li Wen recognized the Ritual of the Scales of Life and Death as Poe D'Lien and Kourt explained how they had built it from the Sunken City's dead and the souls gathered at its nodes. The ritual was ready to begin, with Poe seeking transformation into a Magical Lifeform and Kourt aiming to become a Death Monarch.

• Li Wen identified the enormous array as the Ritual of the Scales of Life and Death, and Kourt left Joseph's body to confront her as a phantom of deathly energy.
• Poe D'Lien described the ritual as his attempt to bring the abstract Undying Flower into the material world, while Kourt revealed that the drowned residents of the Sunken City supplied its power of death.
• Poe D'Lien and Kourt explained that they had balanced magic and deathly energy for a century to prepare the ritual's opposing scales.
• Kourt identified Moriah Enoch, Victoria Hefati and the Investigation Bureau, the outsiders, and the ordinary survivors as soul nourishment representing life, order, disorder, and humanity.
• Poe D'Lien declared that he would use the flower to become a Magical Lifeform, while Kourt planned to devour it and become a Death Monarch; the ritual was ready to begin.

Li Wen watched the Ritual of the Scales of Life and Death begin, suspecting that the players’ unusual souls and Poe D'Lien and Kourt’s mutual distrust had doomed it to fail. The ritual drained the players’ experience and trapped everyone in place as their souls and opposing energies converged into a changing flower at the plaza’s center.

• Li Wen recalled that Poe D'Lien had vanished from history and Kourt had later become a Saint, concluding that the ritual had both succeeded and failed.
• The Ritual Array activated and drew life force from the people at its nodes, while Edgar and his team struggled unsuccessfully to escape.
• Joker and the other players discovered that their experience was falling and their system menus could not log them out.
• Kourt accused Poe D'Lien of tampering with the ritual, but Poe denied it and said it could no longer be stopped.
• Order Magic Power, Decaying Death Qi, and the extracted souls converged at the plaza’s center, where a shifting translucent flower began to bloom.

The Miracle Core's ritual redirected its power from most participants to the player nodes, allowing the Undying Flower to become a near-solid entity that Li Wen recognized as an embryonic divinity. Poe D'Lien and Kourt both charged for the flower, and their collision unleashed a devastating storm that threatened everyone in the Sunken City.

• The Ritual Array's connections snapped at most nodes, but the bands linking the players remained and drained their experience and something deeper from them.
• Li Wen realized the flower had redirected the ritual toward the power or rules above the players, and concluded that the Undying Flower was an embryonic form of divinity.
• The unstable flower exploded into points of light that gathered in the sky and formed a near-solid Undying Flower.
• Poe D'Lien and Kourt broke their century-long alliance and rushed to claim the flower.
• Poe D'Lien's magic and Kourt's skeletal hand collided, unleashing a destructive energy storm that shattered the Ritual Array and left everyone struggling to survive.

Selwyn Lagoven arrived with Remington to shield the survivors from the battle between Poe D'Lien and Kourt and prepare their escape. As the group fled the collapsing ruins, Fu Qingyan realized Mephisto was missing.

• Poe D'Lien and Kourt unleashed devastating powers that threatened everyone trapped in the plaza.
• Selwyn Lagoven arrived through Remington's teleportation ritual and protected the group with a curtain of light.
• Selwyn explained that the long-range Teleportation Array was ready and said he would stay behind to handle the aftermath.
• Joseph Willbrard regenerated and attacked Remington, so Moria joined the captain while Edgar ordered the others to retreat.
• Fu Qingyan noticed that Mephisto had disappeared from the fleeing group.

Moria drank a pale golden liquid that lifted Joseph’s curse and joined Remington in a fight that began to wear Joseph down. Meanwhile, Li Wen headed toward the Undying Flower, planning to seize her chance when it completed its metamorphosis.

• Remington smashed Joseph’s chest, but Joseph healed rapidly and taunted him about being impossible to kill.
• Moria drank the golden liquid, dispelled the curse marks on his skin, and attacked Joseph with Radiance, weakening his regeneration.
• Joseph fought recklessly and revealed that Lord Kourt had taken his death, leaving him trapped in an eternal curse.
• Selwyn judged that Joseph was burning through his cursed soul and chose to save his strength for the battle at the storm’s center.
• Li Wen realized the Undying Flower was absorbing the power and Remnant Souls of Poe D'Lien and Kourt, and continued toward it to strike when it was most vulnerable.

Li Wen fought through the destructive storm around Sunken City and used repeated Lost Moth teleports to reach the Undying Flower while Poe D'Lien and Kourt struggled to claim it. At 100% Twilight Erosion, she appeared inside the flower’s deepest core, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Li Wen endured the storm’s attacks and the Undying Flower’s soul-crushing pressure as she approached the battlefield’s center.
• Poe D'Lien and Kourt stopped attacking each other and tried to bind the Undying Flower with magic and death energy.
• Li Wen seized the brief opening and used Lost Moth twice to cross the battlefield’s outer energy zone.
• Li Wen used Lost Moth a third time to reach the flower’s petals, pushing Twilight Erosion to 96%.
• Li Wen made a fourth teleport as Twilight Erosion reached 100% and appeared in the Undying Flower’s innermost core.

Li Wen used The Final Codex and Poem of Paradise to draw the Undying Flower into fully blooming, but its unleashed divinity destroyed Poe D'Lien and Kourt. As the underwater ruins faced the flower’s power, Selwyn teleported himself, Moria, and Captain Remington away.

• With Twilight Erosion at 100%, Li Wen summoned The Final Codex and cast Poem of Paradise inside the Undying Flower’s core.
• The Undying Flower sensed the Codex, fully bloomed, and unleashed its divinity across the world.
• The flower erased Poe D'Lien and Kourt and absorbed their Remnant Souls and power.
• Joseph lost the curse sustaining his immortality, and Moria seized the moment to kill him with a sword strike.
• Selwyn warned Captain Remington and Moria not to look up, then teleported all three away from the collapsing underwater ruins.

Li Wen used herself as bait to make the Undying Flower reveal its divinity and touch The Final Codex. The Codex destroyed and consumed the flower, then sent refined power into Li Wen, rescuing her from Twilight Erosion and forcing her to advance.

• Li Wen relied on The Final Codex to punish the Undying Flower when it reached for the Supreme Artifact.
• The Final Codex turned its gaze on the flower, and cracks spread across its form as its existence began to collapse.
• The Codex devoured the flower's essence, refining a portion of its power and sending it into Li Wen's soul.
• The power drove Li Wen's Twilight Erosion down from 99% until the progress panel vanished.
• Li Wen's consciousness returned as the nourishment reforged her, and she began advancing beyond the limits of her rank as a Witch Disciple.

Li Wen witnessed the colossal tree’s death and joined a faceless witch in chanting the end, reshaping her soul and completing her advancement to End Chanter. She returned to the ruins of Sunken City with new abilities and the Touch of Wither trait, while the Undying Flower and its creator had vanished.

• Li Wen’s consciousness rose beyond the worlds and witnessed the colossal tree wither as its leaves, branches, and roots disintegrated.
• A faceless witch caught the last amber mote beneath the dead tree and began chanting about the end of all things.
• Li Wen joined the witch’s chant, becoming a chanter as the Undying Flower’s nourishment rebuilt her spiritual foundation.
• Li Wen returned to the game above Sunken City after the energy storm subsided and the Undying Flower and its creator vanished.
• Li Wen advanced to End Chanter, gained Lament of Paradise and Touch of Wither, improved Poem of Paradise, and lost Professional Pickpocket.

After defeating Kourt, Li Wen examined the powers she had gained and discovered a clue to the Decay Codex in the Final Codex. She decided to wait out the Lost status before attempting to return to Port Belen.

• Li Wen reviewed her new Lament of Paradise ability, the upgraded Poem of Paradise, and the Touch of Wither trait.
• Li Wen realized that Kourt’s death had seemingly ended her chance of learning the Decay Codex’s whereabouts.
• Li Wen found a new page in the Final Codex bearing a coded message about the White Death God’s coronation in the Forgotten Kingdom.
• Li Wen chose to log out and wait for her Lost status to expire before traveling.

After the battle near Sunken City, Selwyn, Captain Remington, and Moria waited aboard an Ice Ship for Li Wen, uncertain whether she had survived. Li Wen returned safely and reported that Poe D'Lien and Kourt were dead, and the group set course for Port Belen.

• Selwyn searched the sea for traces of the vanished presence while Captain Remington urged the others to leave.
• Moria said they were waiting for Miss Mephisto and revealed that she was the apostle of the Twilight Witch, acknowledged by Impurities.
• Remington spotted Li Wen flying toward the Ice Ship, and she landed safely aboard.
• Li Wen reported that Poe D'Lien and Kourt were both dead without mentioning the Undying Flower.
• Selwyn declared the threat eliminated and turned the Ice Ship toward Port Belen.

Li Wen and Moria returned to Port Belen after the disaster at sea, while Captain Remington mourned the loss of the Adventurer and its crew. Li Wen joined Moria to visit Ms. Sivell, and they arrived at Fog Bell Alley as each considered the mysteries still ahead.

• The survivors reached Port Belen, and Selwyn Lagoven reported that he would brief the Sunday Secret College before vanishing.
• Captain Remington said he needed to find the families of the sailors lost with the Adventurer, then left alone.
• Moria decided to seek Ms. Sivell's divination about the Great Blood and The Truth Society's plans.
• Li Wen agreed to accompany Moria while she continued deciphering the White Death God's cryptic message.
• Li Wen and Moria crossed Port Belen and arrived at the entrance to Fog Bell Alley.

Li Wen and Moria visited Sivell after Kourt’s death, learning that his bloodline curse and influence could endure and that the Great Blood was in Arthur’s Royal Capital. Sivell warned Moria to be wary of mages as they left.

• Moria told Sivell that Kourt was dead, and she explained that Archmage Aiswell had saved Loren Ting City’s residents before casting Skyfall.
• Sivell revealed that Kourt’s blood-bound call had lured generations of Lorenteen descendants, including people from Port Belen, to their deaths at sea.
• Sivell said Roberts had returned from Black Reef Bay before becoming a pirate and vanishing at sea again.
• Sivell prophesied that the Great Blood was held collectively in Arthur’s Royal Capital, where light shone brightest and shadows thrived.
• Li Wen declined Sivell’s offer to divine her fate, and Sivell warned Moria never to completely trust mages.

After leaving Fog Bell Alley, Moria and Li Wen decided to travel from Port Belen to the Royal Capital to investigate the threat posed by Great Blood. Fu Qingyan gave them gold for the journey, and Moria arranged a carriage and a map of safe supply points.

• Moria reflected on Sivell's warning not to trust mages completely as he and Li Wen left the sealed Eternal Life Blessing Cult church behind.
• Li Wen said she was going to the Royal Capital to consult ancient Giant myths, and Moria agreed to accompany her because Great Blood posed a danger to royal power.
• Fu Qingyan found Li Wen and Moria and learned that the Adventurer had sunk and Captain Remington had lost companions.
• Fu Qingyan gave Li Wen gold as thanks for her materials and as travel money for the Royal Capital.
• Moria secured a low-cost carriage through the merchants' guild and obtained an official map showing safe supply points along the route.

Princess Victoria reviewed the aftermath of the Eternal Life Blessing Cult's defeat and confronted Captain Edgar and his team with the truth about their secret assassination mission. Edgar, Anles, and Lina chose to swear loyalty to her, while Moria and Mephisto departed for Camelot.

• Victoria learned that Spade K had been imprisoned and that most captured players had returned to their respawn points by suicide.
• Victoria summoned Edgar and his team, then revealed that the General Bureau of Investigation had ordered them to arrange her accidental death in Port Belen.
• Victoria offered Edgar and his team the choice of killing her or pledging loyalty to her and receiving protection from the conspirators beneath the throne.
• Edgar knelt before Victoria, and Anles and Lina followed, signaling their allegiance.
• Helena reported that Moria and Mephisto had left Port Belen for the northwest, and Victoria said they would meet again in Camelot.

Moria and Li Wen traveled toward Camelot, where Li Wen planned to investigate Giant mythology and seek clues to the Book of Truth. The journey ended in Oak Town when an elderly woman begged Moria to save her grandson.

• Moria helped villagers along the road without accepting payment, while Li Wen watched and reflected on his actions.
• Li Wen set aside the mystery of the White Death God and decided that Camelot was her best destination for researching Giant mythology and the Book of Truth.
• The coachman told Moria about Camelot’s White Rose City Walls, the Sunday Secret College, and St. George’s Grand Cathedral.
• In Oak Town, an elderly woman pushed through the crowd and begged Moria to save her grandson.

Moria and Li Wen investigated Jamie’s mysterious Umbral curse and learned it came from an abandoned mine east of Oak Town. Moria set out to eradicate the source, and Li Wen joined him.

• An old woman told Moria that her grandson Jamie was dying with cold skin and spreading black spots, so Moria and Li Wen went to examine him.
• Moria recognized the spots as a corrosive curse from the Umbral Lineage that was eroding Jamie’s soul.
• The old woman revealed that Jamie had entered an abandoned mine with friends seeking ancient gold coins, and he returned alone while the others disappeared.
• Moria prayed over Jamie, easing his pain and temporarily suppressing the curse.
• Moria promised to investigate the mine, and Li Wen joined him as they left the shack.